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The African Jacana, found across sub-Saharan Africa, is famous for its rare polyandrous system: one female mates with several males, and the males do all the childcare. This evolved because their lake habitats are so resource-rich that producing eggs costs the female very little, and, since they’re birds, either sex can incubate eggs equally well. The real bottleneck in reproduction becomes how quickly each male can raise a brood, so females compete for males instead of the reverse. Each male en